The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-29

more than 500 900.
A SUBMARINE cable will soon be laid from
Vancouver to Australia, it is said, touching
at Hawaii and Fiji.
A soUALL capsized the steam barge
Walters " on Lake Erie, near Sandusky,
and eight lives were lost.
A COMMITTEE of the Philadelphia city
government recommends the adoption of
the Meigs elevated road.
JEFF. DAVIS declares that the letter pur-
porting to have been written by him on the
flag business is a forgery
DIR. MCGLYNN, in an address made in
Buffalo, denied the authority of those who
summoned him to Rome.
A coLLrERY explosion in mine near
Scranton, Pa, so badly injured five men
that most of them will die.
THE government intends to establish
laboratory in Chicago to test the oleomarga-
rine produced in the West
IT is reported from Brazil that monkeys
have been trained to work in the field and
that they give satisfaction
SARA BERNHARDT is said to have gathered
in 100000 as the result of her tour in this
country and South America.
The Northern IN. H. Railroad Company
will take possession and manage its own
line after the LIST of next July.
IT is charged that officers of the Fidelity
Bank of Cincinnati raised 500, 600 in New
York on forged certificates of deposit.
The tobacco warehouses of Glover x Co.
in Louisville, KY, have been destroyed by
fire. The loss is nearly half million.
A CHICAGO eXpress-train has been wrecked
near Oakland, Md, causing the death of
one man and injuries to six other persons.
CAMBRIDGE (EDgland) University con-
ferred an honorary degree upon Professor
Asa Gray, the botanist of Harvard College.
KING OTTO of Bavaria is hopelessly in
sane, and an effort will be made by the
next Bavarian parliament to dethrone him.
Two thousand iron-workers at Reading,
Pa, refused to accept ten per cent reduc-
ton in wages and the mills have been shut
down.
THE Fidelity National Bank at Cincinnati
is obliged to suspend, owing to complica-
tons growing out of the recent corner in
wheat,
THE news from Egypt is highly sensa-
tional, indicating, as it does, complications
seriously involving three of the European
powers.
THE largest estate in the world owned in
fee simple by single proprietor is said to
be located in New Mexico 1t contains
100000 acres
A wATER-sPoUT burst near the quays at
Toulouse, France, submerging a wash-house
were drowned.
THE farm of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
at Peekskill has been purchased by General
Thomas, the president of the East Ten
nessee railroad.
GRAssHoPPERs are very thick in the
vicinity of Perham, MINI. 1t is stated that
1900 acres of grain and garden crops have
been destroyed.
THREE was a riot in Cork the Dist, in
Ntitn.
mobbed, and the police had to charge twice
to drive the rioters away.
GOVERNOR HILL has signed the bill for
the better protection of trains on bridges
and to prohibit the use of stoves on passen-
ger cars after May l. 1888.
A HORSE in indianapolis serves four hun
dred fifty subscribers with papers every
morning. He knows every house where his
master is to leave paper.
THE "Genesta has won the jubilee yacht
race around the British Isles Her time
over the course was twelve days. sixteen
hours and ifty-fve minutes.
AMONG the presents received by the Queen
was one of $4,000 subscribed by 100000
women. Her majesty accepted this and
graciously thanked the donors
THE vice-president, cashier and others
connected with the Fidelity Bank of Cincin-
natl are under arrest for fraudulent work
THE floor of the Concordia church in
Brockport, n. Y, fell through Sunday
during the services and twenty persons
were injured by falling into the cellar.
A FIRE broke out in a tenement-house on
! Oxford street. London, and the flames
! spread so rapidly that several of the in
mates were unable to make their escape.
BUCHTEL COLLEGE, the Universalist insti-
tuition at Akron, Ohio, has received another
gift Of $4,000 from its founder, John h.
! Buchte, making his endowment 100000.
THE business portion of Marshfeld, Wis,
! is burned, including the Wisconsin Central
| depot and the fremont Hotel. The railroad
| is blockaded. The loss is nearly 81 900, 900.
THE entire plant of the Chicago, Mil
waukee x st. Paul rOlling-mills was
burned last week. Loss $4,000. Two
hundred men are thrown out of employment
THE funeral of ex-President Mark Hop.
| kins of Williams College, which took place
at Williamstown, Mass, was an occasion of
marked solemnity. Business in the town
was suspended
THE daily papers of Boston, the Globe ex
cepted, are unanimous in cOndemning the
attempt to prevent fine English-American
| citizens from celebrating the jubilee OF
Queen Victoria in Faneuil Hall.
IT is stated that Jay Gould made his first
| public benefaction the other day in the pur-
| chase of thirty-three and one-third acres OF
land, which has been added to the Mount
Vernon tract in Virginia.
| PROFESSOR ELISHA GRAY has made an
important invention in the use of electricity
| 1t is claimed that with ii an exact fac Sjmiit
| of words written on piece of paper can be
reproduced hundreds of miles distant.
MANY leading democrats, mostly senators
are in Washington to confer about theil
party policy, especially in relation to the
surplus. Congressman Randall is conspicu
Gus for his absence.
A STORY comes from Kentucky of the
| killing of four men and the wounding OF
several others in an attempt to put an end
to the Martin-Tolliver vendetta, which has
existed for five years. The number killed
including the last, during that time is 81
KING KALAKAUA of the Sandwich Islands
has been caught in dishonesty. He took
seventy-fve thousand dollars for licensing
an opium monopoly to one firm, and ther
licensed another for eighty thousand. Only
thirty thousand got into the national treas
ury.
THE London Standard estimates that fully
E1,0OO,000 (S5,000,O00) was paid for seats
where the royal procession could be re-
viewed, and that large proportion of the
amount came from American pockets. 1t il
stated that fully 20, 900 Americans witnessed
the big show.
THE Society of the Army of the Potomac
held its annual reunion in Saratoga the 22d
General j. c. Robinson OF New York was
elected president. There was a parade, il
which Generals Sherman and Sickles an